Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:09:00 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be? Message-ID: <39BE38FC.41C67EA6@elischer.org> References: <20000912142745.A7121@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> For those of you running VMWare (2) on -current, how fast do you expect it to
> be?
>
> I'm running it quite successfully on a 750MHz PIII w/ 128MB RAM, and the
> following disk controller / disk
>
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller> port 0xfc90-0xfc9f at device 7.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> ad0: 17301MB <FUJITSU MHJ2181AT> [35152/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33
>
> This is -current from about three weeks ago. It works, but it's a bit slow.
> Applications themselves run at a reasonable speed, but every now and then
> (can be as frequent as 10-15 seconds)
use only virtual disks and see if it still happens.
I found (on vmware 1) that using the raw disks was a recipe for
poor performance. Since we don't have block devices any more,
we are screwed in this regard. Virtual disks (files) are however
buffered and so can sometimes work faster.
>
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